Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-22
ATTEMPTED POLITICAL PURIFICATIoN
IN MARYLAND

ldilu dSdiISJ DculOCIdliC management 'llfu
the Administration. The indictment of
the Democratic party by the Independent
Democrats of Maryland is one Of the most
scathing and astounding protests and bills
Of impeachment ever brought against 4
political organization. 1t is altogether
too lengthy for reproduction here. la the
entire range Of political history there is
nothing that at all compares with it in
bitterness and directness. For instance, it
says of the outEages in Baltimore:
Of % State and Federal employees in one ward
We have found 10 whose names appear on the
criminal records of the city. Seven
men have been appointed to Office under the
city, State and national governments within
lew months past who have taken human life,
and these appointments have not been made by
oversight, but in spite of all protest
1t proceeds To charge that the Federal
offices have been given over to the spoils-
men, and the State and city offices to bal
lot-box suffers, thugs and murderers. Re
ferring to the Democratic machine
which is one phase of bossism, and which,
thanks to an improving public sentiment,
is daily becoming more odious-the in
dictment charges:
This organization has banded together the
criminal classes of the city for election and
other purposes. Certain local leaders in each
ward-men of the worst character frequently
men with long criminal records-are given the
dhtribution of certain portions of the city's
patronage, TO be used in keeping together bands
Of roughs ana ballot thieves. These ward lead
i'm rnft Thn QfrnrN Il GIVE
them, supply the men for carrying elections by
fraud, and in some of the lower wards keep to-
gether the thugs and cut-throats employed to
oyerawe those who oppose the plans of the man
ayers. In many eases inoffensve men are as
saulted by their agents, and in more than one
instance they have not stopped at deliberate
murder.
Again, in describing the acts of the
machine" the address declares:
1t has appointed to public Office thieves, burg
lars, express robbers and men stained with
every crime. 1t has burned the ballots when in
the custody Of the Clerk of the Court, and the
perpetra ors OF the act have publicly boosted of
IL indeed, every one connected with that act
has been rewarded from the public treasury. Ii
has secured places in the Government employ
for the TWO most notorious election thieves in
the city. II has Earrisoned ward with ruffans
and kept them in the city's pay.
Concerning the frauds in election regis
"E 'i'N i'l''iN'iiSiI u9eo Ills iduSudSe
The investigations of the League have dis
closed frauds in the registration auountjnp Ia
thousands Of names. In some cases the names
have been taken bodily from the directories of
other cities, In one case the names of a whole
class ~. l3e Medical Gollge have been found
none Of them for years had ben living in tue
in ro9ccrfed aitempt 'i I" hjndr tbc g g e' 81
the i,easue in Tie ;iimp EFFORT to watch their
tina, ,beir .iItinc~ sliail ic plblic INDEED, one
they j is nder i tb 5t tir II o or TuT' tba
f Si Gfins at ne saas tine .ereaTy Of the
the chairman OF the Democratic City Executive
upon The agent Of lb i Kr f ed Gf b slG 6
stfjgt, nj InT f OF ths three most no
the Courts hos secured to the az n's OF The
ton: even thar has not made Tbeln SAT safe sns
ar ar or ihs'" and malicious indisoi'y atIer
Tn, Ne,s yorL Uc,5} s,y. al. ~. .,r,,.
tcst.
That there should te a refusal OF, ii,,. .Iort or
is not pen2cfats 10 , sustain snea c,biYalion
that in the only state where this issue is sharply
state, too. that is almost in sight OF the White
5pmer and TeS ba T me- was elected as re-
the side Of the rings, the thieves and the crimi-
great deal of une6siness not to say Stronger
tbon i Mar 1IiIP lhe reioFmers IN other states
The New York IIo,yd i Dor,ocr,t;o
MARYLAND cave Mr. Cleveland = n1,r,lit,
Of ONLY II o33 The Democr,tic ,iro, i,
MARYLAND has all this ,o,ror f,, e,.iI h.,
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